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US to get Extras special first
07/11/2007 … Viewers in America could get to see the long-awaited final episode of Extras up to a week before British fans.
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Wed 07 November 2007
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© BBC British Comedy Awards nominations
07/11/2007 … The shortlists have been announced for this year’s British Comedy Awards.
Tue 06 November 2007
The fat lady sings
06/11/2007 … Jo Brand is to sing in an opera on the West End stage.
© BBC ITV set to shelve Langham sitcom
06/11/2007 … ITV1 has said it is almost certain to drop a planned comedy series starring Chris Langham as a late-night radio DJ.
Mon 05 November 2007
‘Pungently personal’
Deayton rapped for Jimmy Savile gag
05/11/2007 … Angus Deayton has been rapped for cracking a ‘pungently personal’ joke about Sir Jimmy Savile.
Seinfeld scraps reunion plans
...and gets tetchy in an interview
05/11/2007 … Jerry Seinfeld has given up on a secret plan to write one last Seinfeld script - because he ran out of timeHe has revealed he was working on a reunion episode with…
Raising the dead
Comedy show reopens 'ghost' theatre
05/11/2007 … An abandoned Victorian theatre that has lain unused for more than 70 years is to be opened to the public - for a cult late-night stand-up show.
'Absolutely shameless'
Fans' backlash over Peter Kay DVD
05/11/2007 … Peter Kay is risking another backlash from fans by issuing a compilation DVD of his stand-up act.